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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#10251

Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani

#95160

Overall Influence

1923 - Present (103 years)

Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani was an Afghan Islamic scholar. The honorific "Faizani", a derivation of an Arabic word which denotes something that overflows with God's light , was bestowed upon him by the imam of the Kaaba during his Hajj.

#10252

Maira Bes-Rastrollo

#170895

Overall Influence

Maira Bes-Rastrollo is a professor of preventive medicine and public health at the University of Navarra whose research on ultra-processed food has been widely covered in the media. External links https://unav.academia.edu/MairaBesRastrollohttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maira_Bes-Rastrollo

#10253

Brian Berman

#80668

Overall Influence

Brian M. Berman is a tenured professor of family medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Education Berman received his medical degree from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He completed his residencies at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and at the University of California, Los Angeles.

#10254

Alexei Dzermant

#140701

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Alexey Valeryevich Dzermant, sometimes published as Derman, also Dermant or Dzermanis — is a Belarusian philosopher, journalist and political observer, characterized in non-governmental media as a pro-government political analyst. Until the early 2010s, he was an activist of the neo-pagan movement; currently he is an Orthodox Christian and staunch supporter of Eurasianism.

#10255

Eric Mark Meslin

#129627

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Eric M. Meslin PhD FRSC FCAHS is a Canadian-American philosopher-bioethicist and current President and CEO of the Council of Canadian Academies . Education Meslin has a B.A. in Philosophy from York University, and both an M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Georgetown University.

#10256

Karen Simmer

#135929

Overall Influence

Karen Simmer is an Australian paediatrician and professor of Newborn Medicine at the University of Western Australia and is director of two neonatal intensive care units at hospitals in Perth. She also runs the WA Human Milk Bank and is team leader, neonatal gut health, nutrition and development at the Telethon Kids Institute.

#10257

Rudolf Eller

#133631

Overall Influence

1914 - 2001 (87 years)

Rudolf Eller was a German musicologist and professor at the University of Rostock. Life Born in Dresden, Eller was the son of violist Arthur Emil Eller and his wife Margarete. From 1934 to 1936 he studied organ, composition and choral conducting at the orchestra school of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, then until 1941 musicology, art history, history and philosophy at the universities of Leipzig and Vienna. From 1941 until the end of the war Eller was drafted into military service.

#10258

Ann Arvin

#71720

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Ann M. Arvin is an American pediatrician and microbiologist. She is the Lucile Salter Packard Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Microbiology & Immunology Emerita at Stanford University. Arvin is a specialist of the Varicella zoster virus and a prominent national figure in health. Arvin is currently the chief of the infectious diseases division of pediatrics at the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, as well as the former Stanford's Vice Provost and Dean of Research.

#10259

Klaus Hofmann

#59512

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Klaus Hofmann is a German musicologist who is an expert on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Born in Würzburg, Hofmann studied after graduation from 1958 to 1959 at the University of Erlangen. He then continued his studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg. In 1968 he received his doctorate with a dissertation " " . From 1968 to 1978 he worked as an employee of the Hänssler Verlag. From 1978 he was a research assistant of the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute in Göttingen, one of the two institutions which prepared the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, the second complete edition of Bach's work. In...

#10260

Patrice Pavis

#43635

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Patrice Pavis was Professor for Theatre Studies at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England , where he retired at the end of the academic year 2015/16. He has written extensively about performance, focusing his study and research mainly in semiology and interculturalism in theatre. He was awarded the Georges Jamati Prize in 1986.

#10261

Lisa Stamp

#125493

Overall Influence

Lisa Katrina Stamp is a New Zealand academic, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Otago. Academic career After a 2003 PhD titled T lymphocyte cyclooxygenase isotypes and the role of T lymphocytes in modulating monocyte and synoviocyte cyclooxygenase expression at the University of Adelaide, Stamp moved to the University of Otago, rising to full professor.

#10262

Mark Montebello

#104098

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Mark Montebello is a Maltese philosopher and author. He is mostly known for his controversies with Catholic Church authorities but also for his classic biographies of Manuel Dimech and Dom Mintoff. Private life Montebello, the son of Joseph, a RAF corporal, and Lucrezia née Sultana, a primary school teacher, both from Sliema, was born in Malta at the Mtarfa military hospital, the third of four siblings, and grew up at Sliema.

#10263

Philip D. Ross

#171030

Overall Influence

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Tim Noakes

#12400

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Timothy David Noakes is a South African scientist, and an emeritus professor in the Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine at the University of Cape Town. He has run more than 70 marathons and ultramarathons, and is the author of several books on exercise and diet. He is known for his work in sports science and for his support of a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet, as set out in his books The Real Meal Revolution and Lore of Nutrition: Challenging Conventional Dietary Beliefs.

#10265

Kieran Setiya

#168719

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Kieran Setiya is a Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was born in Hull, UK. He is known for his work in ethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind. Setiya is a co-editor of Philosophers' Imprint. He has also been active in public philosophy and hosts a podcast, Five Questions, in which he asks contemporary philosophers five questions about themselves.

#10266

John Harriss

#47343

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

John Charles Harriss is an emeritus professor of international studies at Simon Fraser University, visiting faculty at the London School of Economics and Professorial Associate at SOAS. In 2017, Harris was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

#10267

Erika Jensen-Jarolim

#156859

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Erika Jensen-Jarolim is an Austrian physician and medical researcher in immunology and allergies. She was formerly head of the Institute of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research at the Medical University of Vienna, and since 2011 has held the joint professorship in Comparative Medicine at the Medical University and the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, part of the inter-university Messerli Research Institute.

#10268

Shyam Prabhakaran

#165350

Overall Influence

Shyam K. Prabhakaran is an American vascular neurologist. He is the James Nelson and Anna Louise Raymond Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurology at the University of Chicago. Early life and education Prabhakaran grew up in New Jersey. He completed his undergraduate degree at Boston University and qualified for the Dean's list in 1996. Prabhakaran then earned his medical degree at New Jersey Medical School and completed his internship and residnecy at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. He also earned his Master of Science degree at Columbia University.

#10269

David S. Guzick

#39998

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

David S. Guzick an American reproductive endocrinologist and economist. He served as Senior Vice President of Health Affairs and President of UF Health at the University of Florida from 2009 to 2018, and is Emeritus Dean of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.

#10270

Ioannis Pallikaris

#18817

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Ioannis G. Pallikaris is a Greek ophthalmologist who in 1989 performed the first LASIK procedure on a human eye. Pallikaris also developed Epi-LASIK. Professor Palikaris was the rector of the University of Crete between 2003 and 2011. He is also the founder and director of the Institute of Vision and Optics in the same university.

#10271

Alice Roberts

#40250

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Alice May Roberts is an English academic, TV presenter and author. Since 2012 she has been Professor of Public Engagement in Science at the University of Birmingham. She was president of the charity Humanists UK between January 2019 and May 2022. She is now a vice president of the organisation.

#10272

Vittore Bocchetta

Vittore Bocchetta

#62238

Overall Influence

1918 - 2021 (103 years)

Vittore Bocchetta was a Sardinia-born Italian sculptor, painter, and academic. Bocchetta was a member of the anti-fascist Italian resistance movement during World War II. Biography Vittore Bocchetta was born in Sassari, Sardinia to a military engineer. After his childhood in Sardinia, he moved with his family first to Bologna and then to Verona. Even if belonging to a family of artists, his parents did not permit him to paint or draw because they were afraid that he might be distracted from his education.

#10273

W. Boyd Rayward

#41824

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

W. Boyd Rayward is an Australian librarian and scholar, best known as the biographer of Paul Otlet. Life Warden Boyd Rayward was born in Inverell, New South Wales, Australia in 1939 and studied Library Science at the University of New South Wales, graduating in 1964. He then transferred to the U.S. to continue his studies at the University of Illinois. He later earned a master's degree and doctorate in 1973 from the University of Chicago Graduate Library School. His dissertation was on Paul Otlet.

#10274

Takeshi Sakurai

#171133

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

#10275

Jane M. Blocker

#123068

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Jane M. Blocker is a Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory and the Chair of the Department of Art History at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where she is affiliated with the Moving Image Studies at the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature. In a note on the back cover of Blocker's What the Body Cost Lucy R. Lippard writes of her: "Jane Blocker is as good a writer, scholar, and original thinker as feminists could hope for."

#10276

Drew Casper

#16738

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Joseph Andrew "Drew" Casper is a Professor of Critical Studies who previously worked at the School of Cinematic Arts as part of the University of Southern California and is considered by many to be an authority on American film from World War II to the present. While a Ph.D. student at USC, Dr. Casper's mentor, Irwin Blacker, died suddenly and the Cinema department offered Dr. Casper a position. Casper rose to become the third-highest-paid person at USC. In the fall of 1997, the estate of Alfred Hitchcock and USC made Dr. Casper the first Alma and Alfred Hitchcock Professor for the Study of American Film.

#10277

Jean-Pierre LaFouge

#57037

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Jean-Pierre LaFouge is an Associate Professor of French at Marquette University. He is the author and editor of several books and numerous articles, dealing with topics of Christian spirituality, religious art, and Traditionalism.

#10278

Anna Kisselgoff

#16850

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Anna Kisselgoff is a dance critic and cultural news reporter for The New York Times. She began at the Times as a dance critic and cultural news reporter in 1968, and became its Chief Dance Critic in 1977, a role she held until 2005. She left the Times as an employee at the end of 2006, but still contributes to the paper.

#10279

Julie Ledgerwood

Julie Ledgerwood

#50599

Overall Influence

Julie E. Ledgerwood is an American allergist and immunologist, who is the chief medical officer and serves as chief of the Clinical Trials Program at the Vaccine Research Center of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases , part of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. She is a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine.

#10280

Ute Roessner

#150619

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Professor Ute Roessner is a biochemist who specialises in plant metabolomics. Until 2022, she has been professor and head of the School of Biosciences at the University of Melbourne. In 2022, she joined The Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.

#10281

William Kennedy Smith

William Kennedy Smith

#16586

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

William Kennedy Smith is an American physician and a member of the Kennedy family who founded an organization focused on land mines and the rehabilitation of landmine victims. He is known for being charged with rape in a nationally publicized 1991 trial that ended with his acquittal.

#10282

Ronald E. Day

#97665

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Ronald E. Day is a librarian and a professor of Information and Library Science at Indiana University in Bloomington where he specializes in research on the culture and history of "information, documentation, knowledge, and communication" in the 20th and 21st centuries. Ronald Day is a significant scholar in the field of library and information science having contributed the first major work on the 20th century French librarian and information scientist Suzanne Briet, known as "Madame Documentation," and publishing more than forty works on the intersection of critical theory and library science.

#10283

Alexander Bolonkin

#34682

Overall Influence

1933 - 2020 (87 years)

Alexander Alexandrovich Bolonkin was a Russian-American scientist and academic who worked in the Soviet aviation, space and rocket industries and lectured in Moscow universities, before being arrested in 1972 by the KGB as a dissident. He served terms of imprisonment and exile for 15 years until 1987, when he emigrated to the US as a political refugee.

#10284

Hunter Wessells

#118056

Overall Influence

Hunter Buchanan Wessells is an American urologist. Hunter Buchanan Wessells was born to Henry W. Wessells III and his wife Nancy Hunter Wessells. The family was related to Henry W. Wessells, and lived in Paoli, Pennsylvania. Hunter Buchanan Wessells earned his undergraduate and medical degrees from Georgetown University, and at the time of his marriage to Bokgi Choi in 1995, was an assistant professor of urology at the University of Arizona Health Science Center, where Choi also taught.

#10285

Arturo Ripstein

Arturo Ripstein

#60967

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Arturo Ripstein y Rosen is a Mexican film director and screenwriter. Considered the "Godfather of independent Mexican cinema", Ripstein's work is generally characterized by "somber, slow-paced, macabre melodramas tackling existential loneliness", often with a grotesque-like edge.

#10286

Ibrahim Al-Buleihi

#54096

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Ibrahim Al-Buleihi is a Saudi liberal writer and philosopher, who is currently a member of the Saudi Shura Council. Biography Albleahy has held a range of positions in government and business throughout his life. Aside from his position on the Shura Council, he is involved in a variety of organizations in Saudi civil society. While he is a devout Muslim, he is highly critical of the way Islam is publicly practised and the degree to which modern Muslim societies are governed by it.

#10287

Derek Bell

#69421

Overall Influence

Derek Bell was Professor of Acute Medicine at Imperial College London and continues to be an emeritus Professor. He has been a Consultant Physician at Central Middles Hospital, The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and most recently at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Appointed as the joint chair of two NHS Trusts in 2021. His initial leadership saw him and others receive parliamentary criticism. Professor Bell was the director of the National Institute for Health Research CLAHRC for Northwest London. He was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, elected in November 2013 he took office on 1 March 2014 succeeding Neil Dewhurst.

#10288

Robert Frenay

#91204

Overall Influence

1946 - 2007 (61 years)

Robert Frenay was an American author and lecturer who described and advocated a green or ecologically conscious approach to technological development and development of human civilization. Frenay lived in the state of New York dividing his time between New York City and Bridgeport in upstate New York.

#10289

Koichi Hirata

#171289

Overall Influence

#10290

Peter Zimmermann

#67929

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Peter Zimmermann is a German painter, sculptor, object artist and university professor. Life and education Peter Zimmermann studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart from 1978 to 1983. Since then he has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums both within Germany and abroad. He works as a painter, sculptor and object artist. He was a professor at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne between 2002 and 2007.

#10291

Martha Lucía Ospina Martínez

#39080

Overall Influence

Martha Lucía Ospina Martínez is a Colombian epidemiologist and doctor who specializes in public health management who was the director of the National Institute of Health until Her last day on October 31, 2022 when she went to work for the Omic Sconces Laboratory. a native of Cali, she had previously served as the Ministry of Health’s National Director of Epidemiology and Demography and director of the High Cost Diseases Account.

#10292

Bharat Gupt

#104171

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Bharat Gupt is an Indian classicist, theatre theorist, sitar and surbahar player, musicologist, and newspaper columnist. He is also a retired Professor in English, who taught at the College of Vocational Studies of the University of Delhi. In February 2023 he received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award by the President of India for his contribution to musicology.

#10293

Werner Janssen

#107669

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Werner Heinrich Janssen is a Dutch/German philosopher, Germanist, author and poet under the pseudonym Heinz Hof. Career Werner Janssen grew up both in Germany and in the Netherlands . He studied at the Universities of Nijmegen, Heidelberg, Amsterdam and Aachen German language and literature, philosophy, sociology, pedagogy, ethnology, political science, psychology and dialect knowledge.

#10294

Mary Ellen O'Connell

#56747

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Mary Ellen O'Connell is the Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame Law School and a research professor of international dispute resolution at Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace in Studies. Since joining the Notre Dame Law School in 2005, she has taught the courses International Law, International Law and the Use of Force, International Dispute Resolution, International Environmental Law, International Art Law, and Contracts. Prior to joining Notre Dame's faculty, she taught at Ohio State University , as the William B. Saxbe Designated Profes...

#10295

Pedram Hamrah

#75191

Overall Influence

Pedram Hamrah is a German-American ophthalmologist and immunologist. He obtained his M.D. from the University of Cologne, Germany. Career In 2002, together with Reza Dana and Ying Liu, he was the first to discover the presence of and characterize resident antigen-presenting cells in the central cornea. Hamrah is currently Professor and Vice Chair of Research and Academic Programs, co-director of Cornea Service, Director of the Center for Translational Ocular Immunology, Tufts Medical Center, Departments of Ophthalmology, Tufts University. He was a faculty member in the laboratory of Ulrich vo...

#10296

Wolfgang Rathert

#123509

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Wolfgang Rathert is a German musicologist born in Minden. Life and career Born in Minden, Rathert passed the C-examination as church musician during his school time and acquired the Abitur at the Herder-Gymnasium Minden. After his community service he studied historical musicology, philosophy and Modern history at the Free University of Berlin from 1980 to 1987. In 1987 he was awarded a PhD in musicology by Rudolf Stephan with a thesis on the US-American composer Charles Ives.

#10297

Marek Haltof

#116344

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Marek Haltof is a professor of film studies. specializing in the cultural histories of Polish and Australian film. He studied at the University of Silesia in Poland and at Flinders University of South Australia in Adelaide. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1995 from the University of Alberta with a Ph.D. dissertation When Cultures Collide: The Cinema of Peter Weir. He received his habilitation in 2001 for Autor i kino artystyczne. Przypadek Paula Coxa from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

#10298

Stephen Kresovich

Stephen Kresovich

#138101

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Stephen Kresovich is a plant geneticist and the Coker Endowed Chair of Genetics in the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences at Clemson University and professor in the School of Integrative Plant Science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University. Since 2019 he has served as director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement.

#10299

Brian Fay

#151456

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Brian C. Fay is an American philosopher and William Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University. He is known for his works on the philosophy of social sciences. Books Social Theory and Political Practice Critical Social Science: Liberation and its Limits Contemporary Philosophy of Social Science: A Multicultural Approach Louis Mink: Historical Understanding History and Theory: Contemporary Readings

#10300

Charlotte Blease

#123071

Overall Influence

Charlotte Blease is a Northern Irish philosopher of medicine from Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is a healthcare researcher at General Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston USA. Formerly she was a Fulbright Scholar to the Program in Placebo Studies at Harvard Medical School. She is a former Irish Research Council fellow and a Queen's University, Belfast lecturer.

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